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re: I'm confused. Does anyone actually WANT to see opera stars perform musicals?
Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 09:02 pm EDT 07/30/20
In reply to: re: I'm confused. Does anyone actually WANT to see opera stars perform musicals? - AlanScott 04:27 pm EDT 07/30/20

"By the mid-1940s (certainly by the late 1940s) most Broadway musicals had floor mikes and probably area mikes, too."

That's what I thought, but someone recently posted somewhere that, according to the R&H organization, SOUTH PACIFIC was the first Broadway musical to use amplification of any kind. That didn't sound right to me -- and I guess it's not.
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re: I'm confused. Does anyone actually WANT to see opera stars perform musicals?
Posted by: AlanScott 10:55 pm EDT 07/30/20
In reply to: re: I'm confused. Does anyone actually WANT to see opera stars perform musicals? - Michael_Portantiere 09:02 pm EDT 07/30/20

Yes, that's absolutely incorrect. We know that South Pacific was amplified (a letter was written to the Times complaining about the tinny sound), but it was very far from the first.
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